Hums

Simmer Indian egg curry while the fan hums in the background.

In a world where the grocery store produce section hums along with seasonless consistency, tomato season offers the rare thrill of noticing.

A fan hums constantly behind her to break the morning heat.

Slim encapsulates the essence of this truth as he hums through feelings of anger, pain and despair to achieve a level of catharsis as he tells a story of a friend who was lynched.

You hear that theme in how singing makes the time pass for the workers in the cotton rows, and in the scene when Slim tells a story about a friend who got lynched and the man’s screams echo into the present until Slim hums and drums his fingertips to overwhelm the sound of all that pain.